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Is there a way to bold the color of the current active terminal tab in iterm2? I do not see an option to do that on the appearance tab of preferences. I know I can change the tab style, but I still want a really bold appearance.
From the above picture, I want the middle tab to be of a bold color (orange or some other bright colors) when it is active.
After some searching, this appears to be a known issue. OS X somehow isn't fully aware my Dell monitor, and is not applying the same font smoothing. The font smoothing can be set using:
defaults -currentHost write -globalDomain AppleFontSmoothing -int 2
ls output with colors (ls -G) is not the default option. Run the following command in your terminal to enable ls colors by default:
echo "alias ls='ls -G'" >> ~/.bashrc
source ~/.bashrc
This and all future terminal sessions will now display colors correctly.
If you're still not seeing colors on your remote (or local) session follow these steps:
In iTerm verify that you're sending a terminal type that supports colors. Open the preferences window -> Profiles -> Default -> Terminal. I'd recommend putting xterm-256color as the Terminal Type.
While connected to the remote machine, run ls -G and open the iTerm preferences again: preferences window -> profiles -> Default -> Colors. Adjust the ANSI Colors, and turn the minimum contrast down until the colors in the terminal window start to show color.
If the remote system supports ls --color=always, remove any existing aliases in ~/.profile or ~/.bashrc and update as follows:
echo "alias ls='ls --color=always'" >> ~/.bashrc
Best Answer
iTerm2 build 2.1.4 on OS X 10.11.4 has that capability built in:
View > Tab Colour:
Clicking one of the colours has the following result (Inactive):
(Active)